Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $34.05, with 4.03 million shares of worth about $137.23 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 54.28% during that period and on January 15, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 3.94%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 151.02M shares, out of which, 147.44M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 19.01% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 28.49%. Year-to-date (YTD), KTOS shares are showing a performance of 29.08% which increased to 79.59% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $16.71 but also hit the highest price of $33.09 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc shares is 1.22 million. The stock is currently trading 21.75% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 26.94% for SMA50 and it goes to 50.56% higher than SMA200.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: KTOS) currently have 151.02M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 86.86% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $5.14B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.05. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 342.90, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.10 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 2.61 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.22. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for KTOS, volatility over the week remained 5.52% while standing at 4.57% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 0.1 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 0.12 and it is 0.59 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 0.04 which is 0.14 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of 0.12 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 11.24% while it is estimated to increase by 24.14% in next year.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by B. Riley Securities on January 13, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $26 and $35 to it. Coverage by B. Riley Securities stated Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on October 30, 2024, suggesting a price target of $26 for the stock. On June 26, 2024, BTIG Research Initiated their recommendations, while on May 28, 2024, JMP Securities Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $27. Stock get a Strong buy rating from Raymond James on April 26, 2024.
